Dr. Sara Pourshahrestani is a biomaterial scientist with several years of experience in the biomedical field with specific focus on development of biomaterials (e.g. mesoporous bioactive glasses, biocomposite scaffolds, films, hydrogels, etc) for biomedical applications including hemostasis (stoppage of bleeding) and tissue engineering. She obtained her Ph.D. in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2017. She has been working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Malaya since Feb 2018.